More acceptable to name son after father than daughter after mother?

[Maybebaby2]

Just a thought that occurred to me. You quite often hear of a son taking their fathers name, maybe not as much as it used to happen but it still happens. I have never heard of a daughter taking the mother's name, does it ever happen?

I was pondering names, as I have done 98% of my time during this pregnancy! The thought occurred to me that I really like my own name and would love to call dd it... if it wasn't already my name! I would never actually give her the same name as me, but I've looked for similar with no joy.

I just wondered if anybody actually did name their daughter after themselves or knows of someone who has the same exact name as their mother?

I think naming your kids after yourselves is odd.

I once knew someone whose parents had male and female versions of the same name, think Joe and Joanne (but that's not it). They had 3 kids, a boy and a girl each named after themselves and the elder daughter had a totally different name.

I really dislike the father-son practice and have never encountered mother-daughter, which I guess says a lot about equality - but I wouldn't like it either. In a way, naming the girl after a parent would traditionally make more sense as she would have been expected to change her surname on marriage so you wouldn't always have two Anne Smiths in perpetuity. I did once know an Olivia who named her son Oliver which I wouldn't have chosen an equivalent myself but I'd be much more open to that than an exact name from the same-gender parent.

Whether son-father, or mother-daughter, I hugely dislike it. It seems to indicate a sense of ownership or control by the parent that sits badly with me. A name is for identifying yourself, being an exact replica of another person living in your own home is disconcerting in my view and I wouldn't like at all to have been named after my mother.

I also often wonder what the other or subsequent children think - X is special because he/she has Daddy or Mammy's name, the rest of the siblings are just 'any old name'. At least that is how teenage me would have viewed it.